Reply #7: Slave Wages = No Incentive To Rehabilitate

[mntleo2]

What I mean about this is, when prisons are privatized and not only get federal money to BE prisons and then also use prisoners for slave labor, why ever let these people go? So, you are given a 15 year sentence for possession of an oz of marijuana, and then the system uses every excuse to keep you in because they can use you for slave labor while raking in the bucks. If you ever do get out, there are few jobs making a livable wage for people with a record, so you will spend the rest of your life working for nothing either way.

In other words it is a way to create cheap labor and keep it cheap. Since we have more people in prison than any other industrialized country, we give to the rich and take from the poor, and we reward industry simply for being rich no matter how they treat their employees or that they do not pay taxes and if they are cronies of the administration, so this goal is no stretch IMO.

My 2 cents
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